Typically threadbare Stephen King adaptation concerning a Mysterious Stranger -- the selfsame Mysterious Stranger who gave a name to a Mark Twain story, only several hundred years older -- who comes to the New England township of Castle Rock and sets the residents at each other's throats, proving the top-of-the-lungs axiom of the local sheriff who had moved there in search of peace and quiet: "Everybody is insane everywhere!" The Devil is not just redundant to this premise; he is rhetorical overkill. To say nothing of pyromaniacal overkill. Max Von Sydow, smug, smirky, smarty-pantsy, lowers himself to the overall level. Amanda Plummer, who is not apt to be stealing any roles from Demi Moore or Meg Ryan and who has to make the most of her chances, raises herself way above it. And Ed Harris, steady as ever, contributes nothing to the nonsense. With Bonnie Bedelia, J.T. Walsh; directed by Fraser C. (son of Charlton) Heston. (1993) — Duncan Shepherd
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